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Art and culture
- 1869 - Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Fanny Pistor sign their contract for the period of six months.
Births
- 65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
- 1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
- 1861 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
- 1862 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright known for his bedroom farces (b. 1921)
- 1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1865 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
- 1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
- 1894 - James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
- 1908 - Max Bill, Swiss architect and designer (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Lucian Freud , British painter and printmaker
- 1925 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
- 1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
- 1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress
- 1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
- 1950 - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
- 1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
Deaths
- 1793 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (b. 1743)
- 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author (b. 1785)
- 1954 - Claude Cahun , French surrealist photographer and writer (b. 1894)
- 1964 - Gustav Wyneken , German freethinker and reformer (b. 1875)
- 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist (b. 1940)
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